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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

How Long Covid Exhausts the Body – The New York Times

A picture is emerging of the toll long Covid takes inside the body and why it can be so debilitating.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/19/science/long-covid-causes.html

Debt Remission for Justice in Repairing Black History?

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

The judicial system considered most of my ancestors to be legal property. As a descendant of slaves, I look at various ways to handle inter-generational wealth, or the lack thereof, and I wonder how to adjust our need for Truth, Reconciliation and restitution to take into account the realities of the various levels of access to resources that different groups of people had (or didn’t have). Racism had its effects, and debt-build up did too, for all poor people.

The ability to build up wealth and pass that on to one’s children requires a fair judicial system that allows one to both build and keep wealth, and then to keep that wealth within a family group safely. Unlike, say, Tulsa, OK in 1921, or many other cases of murder for Black wealth. In studying the book of Deuteronomy, ch. 15, I noticed that the Bible also has much to…

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LA County’s COVID hospitalizations fall to 1,502 as omicron’s grip loosens – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

The number of COVID-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals has fallen to just over 1,500, a huge drop from the middle of last month, when it stood at over 4,800, according to the latest state figures released on Saturday, Feb. 19.

There were 1,502 patients with COVID-19 at county hospitals, a decline of 114 from Friday’s total. Of those patients, 305 were in intensive care, down from 342 the previous day.

The latest numbers came as local health officials reported 85 additional deaths associated with COVID-19 and 3,221 new positive COVID tests, bringing the county’s cumulative totals to 2,780,323 cases and 30,300 fatalities.

Source: LA County’s COVID hospitalizations fall to 1,502 as omicron’s grip loosens – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Trucker convoy: Police arrest another 47 protesters | CTV News

Officers arrested dozens more people Saturday as protesters resumed their standoff with police as part of a ramped up crackdown on the ‘Freedom Convoy’ demonstrations in Ottawa. As of Saturday afternoon, Ottawa police said they had made 47 arrests, in addition to more than 100 on Friday.
— Read on www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/police-arrest-another-47-freedom-convoy-protesters-parliamentary-precinct-in-hold-and-secure-1.5788319

Filosofa Grumbles

Filosofa's Word

Okay, I gave you cute critters to bring smiles to your faces this morning, but now it is afternoon, and I am back in my snarky, grumpy, growly mode.


Miscarriage of justice

Former Minneapolis police officer Kimberly Potter was sentenced yesterday.  Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu sentenced Potter to a total of 24 months, 16 months to be spent in prison, and 8 months on ‘supervised release’.  Murder. Racism.  16 months in prison.  Oh, but wait … Ms. Potter is white, so she gets a slap on the wrist.  If she were Black and her victim had been white, what do you think the sentence would have been?

It started as a traffic stop last April.  20-year-old Duante Wright called his mother and told her he expected they had stopped him for the air fresheners he had dangling from his rear-view mirror, which is illegal in Minnesota.  But, when police…

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February 19th – Rumi

Seclusion 101 with AnneMarie

There are people who possess brilliant minds. There are also people who possess the ability to express themselves simply and comprehensively. I find it fascinating when these people are one and the same – when brilliant minded people have the ability to share their wisdom in a simple and comprehensive manner.

One such fascinating person was Rumi, a thirteenth century Persian poet, who is still sharing his wisdom with us today. (Amazingly, his wisdom is as relevant now as it was in the thirteenth century.)

A year ago, I shared a few of my favourite Rumi quotes in this blog post. Simply brilliant words of wisdom.

https://seclusion101withannemarie.com/2021/02/16/rumi/

There was one quote that has stayed with me for the past year and has had a profound effect on me and my life.

“It’s your road and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for…

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